CREATION OF THE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE IN THE NABATI POETRY OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

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Keywords: Nabati poetry, United Arab Emirates, historical narrative, national myth, cognitive sciences

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Abstract: This paper aims to submit evidence that contemporary Nabati poetry plays an important role in the modern Emirati Society. This work attempts to show and explain how the Nabati poets create a historical narrative. In order to obtain diligent knowledge regarding the Nabati poetry, the paper relies on publications of His Excellency Jamal bin Howaireb, Saad Abdullah Al-Sowayan, and Ibrahim Hamid Al-Chalidi. To show dependencies between culture and language I will use publications of cognitive linguists including George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, Mark Turner, and Daniel Everett. In the presentation, there is applied a descriptive approach. There is also applied cognitive linguistics methodology to the analysis of continuously vivid Nabati poetry of the Gulf. The results of this paper might shed some light on the importance of Nabati Poetry in the contemporary society of the UAE not only for the poets but all Emiratis. This paper proves that since centuries poetry has been a powerful tool for shaping the reality of people of the Arabian Peninsula. This research can widely contribute to a better understanding of Arabic mentality and culture, especially of the newly-appeared rich Gulf countries like the United Arab Emirates.

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